Political Quotes

“I rise against the amendment, also. The President of the United States in deciding that he would have a moratorium in testing also required the Department of Energy to retain the infrastructure to resume testing if necessary upon 6 months' notice. I think this is adequate in the present conditions of the world. As was stated by the previous amendment, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], who authored that amendment, stated the fact that the world is a very dangerous place, that the North Koreans have the capacity of making four to five nuclear weapons, probably have one or two presently already constructed, and the fact is we have the Chinese that even after the President gave the notice of the moratorium exploded a device and are capable of exploding more devices. Mr. Chairman, I think the present moratorium as announced by the President is adequate, it certainly is keeping everything in place in case of imminent national emergency, and I think that the gentleman from Oregon should support what the President of the United States has done in his stand on this moratorium and withdraw his amendment. The gentleman will not do it, but I urge my colleagues to vote no on it.”